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Slightly related: There used to be a DNS server that you could query a TXT record and the response would include the IP of the server that submitted the query. You could use it to debug DNS issues. I thought it was from DNS-OARC but I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone know a way to accomplish this?
dig -4 +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com
Slightly related: There used to be a DNS server that you could query a TXT record and the response would include the IP of the server that submitted the query. You could use it to debug DNS issues. I thought it was from DNS-OARC but I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone know a way to accomplish this?
https://web.archive.org/web/20131126131155/https://ndkyez8kh...
Slightly related: There used to be a DNS server that you could query a TXT record and the response would include the IP of the server that submitted the query. You could use it to debug DNS issues. I thought it was from DNS-OARC but I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone know a way to accomplish this?
dig +short TXT o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @ns1.google.com
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> In 2021, the traffic I once received in a month started arriving in 24 hours. The site went from a billion requests per day to 30-35 billion requests per day over a weekend. 30 billion times 350 bytes (size of my response) is equal to 10.5 terabytes (base-10) a day. 84 terabits per day, 84000/3600/24 ~= 1 gigabit if my math is right. A fully saturated 1 gigabit pipe of worldwide internet costs a lot. So, there.
Really interesting. I never heard of this website and was surprised to hear this volume of traffic it's getting. (I always used curlmyip.org or whatsmyip.net|.com). I wonder what is the rationale for providing a non-rate limited service that can be easily abused like this. The volume almost suggests some stuff like IoT devices or other software use this to test internet connectivity. Or botnets?
My take. I suspect Cloudflare benefited allowing that traffic. It's another data point/tool in their toolbox against the baddies.
For ridiculously easy things like this, I think it's smarter for you to just host it yourself. This way you are not forcing other people to carry your burden. nginx config example: location /ip { add_header Content-Type "application/json"; return 200 '{"host":"$server_name","ip":"$remote_addr","port":"$remote_port","server_ip":"$server_addr","server_port":"$server_port "}\n'; } Which will return something like this i…
This will return the wrong results when used behind a load balancer
Not related to the story of scaling the tech but rather to the IP business in 2023: I’m not affiliated with any of these services, but my goto has been ip4.me, ip6.me, and ip6only.me because they’re short and memorable and because they acknowledge the IPv4/IPv6 split. The first two domains give you your v4 and v6 IP respectively and the latter only resolves over IPv6 (useful to ensure your IPv6 is off when using a VP…
Icanhazip.com will do the same. They have ipv4.icannazip.com and ipv6.icannazip.com where they will return that.
Not related to the story of scaling the tech but rather to the IP business in 2023: I’m not affiliated with any of these services, but my goto has been ip4.me, ip6.me, and ip6only.me because they’re short and memorable and because they acknowledge the IPv4/IPv6 split. The first two domains give you your v4 and v6 IP respectively and the latter only resolves over IPv6 (useful to ensure your IPv6 is off when using a VP…
Does Chrome not recognize the .me TLD? I just tried to type that ip4.me domain twice and it just sent me to search results.
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At $0.085 per GB (some us-east-1 exfil cost Google gave me), 10TB is... ~$1k/day? Yeah sorry, I would not pay $30k/mo so y'all could track your external IP addresses...
That's ridiculous bandwidth pricing. you can get unmetered gigabit at Hetzner for €20 per month. Need 2 Gb? Order a second server.
From there traffic doubled, and he moved to Cloudflare Workers. And then traffic 30xed.
I suspect it's more about request count (>300k per second) than raw number of bits.
You got the short end of the stick for $8 reimbursement!